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Welcome! This Bloggazine is intended to introduce you to artists I know, from around the world, who are creating some awesome 2.5 x 3.5" works of Art. I want to share tutorials, news and events. If you would like to be featured, drop me a note and a link to your work, I'll do my best to fit you in. Do you have a tutorial you would like to share? Please let me know if you have any ATC events in your area, I would like to get that information out to people.

Little Girls - Alice Imekeppel

German artist Alice Imekeppel lives with her husband and young daughter. Alice speaks primarily German, therefore my interview with Alice will be in German as well as English.

I was drawn to Alices "little Girls" series, when I first came across her ATC's. Soon after our first few trades we became close on-line friends. Please take a look at her work; http://www.alices-wunderland.com.

At first I always tried to paint like other artists. But the images still lacked something. Eventually, I tried to find my own style. At first I was not impressed, because I still had the images of other artists in my head. Over time, however, I have received increasing support from others, which inspired me to do more. Meanwhile, I love my own way of drawing, because I think that it is different from others and I recognize myself in the pictures. Also, my characters are living now. This is the most important thing.

My favorites are the little girl series that you do, how long have you been drawing those?

First, I work in pencil. For the outlines I then use a simple black Fineliner. In some images I make the outlines colorful. Mostly I work with Copic Ciaos (https://icopic.com/ which are cheaper than the Copic markers). Currently I'm trying to work with watercolors.

Is there something that you would like to try artistically, that you haven't yet?

I would be happy to work again with airbrush. Unfortunately, the acquisition is rather expensive and thus remain only a wish. What also fascinates me is working with oil. When I first saw "Bob Ross" and its extraordinary landscapes I really wanted to try it.

Tell me about your collection (other artists cards that you have traded for) how many cards do you have? How do you keep them?

I think I have a fairly large collection. I have a few artists 3 to 4 cards because I can not get enough of them. Sometimes I have ordered my cards in chunks. I have a particularly great cat and bird collection. If I had to guess how many cards I have right now I would say about 500 although too little is determined. I collect the cards in a normal folder. In this folder I have something like a slide, the extra is for trading cards.